Crittercism gets a new CEO, appoints Dave Robbins

Andy Levy, former head of the app performance management company, will be its Chief Strategy Officer

Crittercism, a mobile app performance management company thar sees six billion events per day and 60 billion app loads a month is seeing a bit of a shakeup in its leadership.

In a blog post from Andrew Levy, co-founder and CEO of Crittercism, on Tuesday, it was announced that Levy will be stepping down from his position, and that he has already found his replacement in Dave Robbins, former CEO of systems management company BigFix and current CEO of MokaFive.

In the past few years, mobile has fundamentally changed how business is done, and how companies make money, and allowed Crittercism, a company founded in 2010, to make great strides.

"For many companies, mobile now represents over half of digital revenues, and apps are being utilized in ways we could never imagine. This transformation has elevated mobile’s importance to the C-suite, and over the past few quarters created an entire new set of customers for us," said Levy.

"I’ve had the pleasure of leading the company through this growth, having doubled our revenues year over year and seen our software deployed on over a billion devices."

He also realized, though, that to take the company to the next level, it would need to be led by someone with greater expertise than he had.

Levy met Robbins four months ago, thinking he might become an adviser to the company but instead "was more than impressed by his enterprise software background, his ability to align teams and drive execution."

Robbin's experience includes two and half years as CEO at Quippe Technologies/Lucidity, a year as COO of Citadon and three years as Vice President Products and Services at Ultradata Corporation.

"I realized this operational expertise is essential for our next stage of growth. After assuring Dave that I had no intention of leaving the company, and of the opportunity for us to partner together on Crittercism, I managed to convince Dave to come on board as our next CEO (and as I like to joke with him, our next Eric Schmidt!)," Levy said. 

San Francisco-based Crittercism offers a real-time global view of app diagnostics and app crashes across  iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8, Hybrid and HTML5. The company's customers include Nike, LinkedIn, Netflix, Pinterest, Home Depot, Washington Post, Smule, ngmoco:), Shazam, NPR, Urban Outfitters and Sam's Club, with brands like Chipotle, The Hartford, Wawa, Gogo Air, Citizens Bank, and Six Flags also recently coming on board.

Despite no longer being CEO, that doesn't mean that Levy is leaving the company. Instead he will transfer over to becoming Chief Strategy Officer, which, according to him, means that he will be continuing to do what he was doing before. That includes spending time on the road working with prospects, customers, and partners, and leading strategy and focus on product.

Crittercism is one of the biggest companies in

There is Heatma.ps, which launched in 2012m gives app developers better insights into how their apps work, including where people touch first, what functions are never used, what gestures people make, scrolling depth, device orientation, user interface layout problems and more. The company has only raised $600,000 in venture funding. 

Its biggest competitor is probable, Apigee, a website that provides an API platform for companies. The company raised $60 million earlier this year, bringing its total raised to $171 million, before going public in April.

Crittercism has raised $48.7 million in funding, most recently a $30 million round in April of last year Investors in the company include Scale Venture Partners, InterWest Partners, Google Ventures, Shasta Ventures and Opus Capital.

(Image source: crittercism.com)